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ROXOLANA IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CULTURE To my late mother Tamara Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture Edited by GALINA I. YERMOLENKO DeSales University, USA © The editor and contributors 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Galina I. Yermolenko has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Roxolana in European literature, history and culture. 1. Hurrem, consort of Suleiman I, Sultan of the Turks, ca. 1505?–1558 2. Hurrem, consort of Suleiman I, Sultan of the Turks, ca. 1504?–1558 – In literature. 3. Hurrem, consort of Suleiman I, Sultan of the Turks, ca. 1504?–1558 – Influence. 4. European literature – History and criticism. 5. Other (Philosophy) in literature. I. Yermolenko, Galina I. 809.9’3351-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roxolana in European literature, history and culture / edited by Galina I. Yermolenko. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6761-2 (hardback: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4094-0374-6 (ebook) 1. Hurrem, consort of Suleiman I, Sultan of the Turks, ca. 1505?–1558—In literature. 2. Hurrem, consort of Suleiman I, Sultan of the Turks, ca. 1505?–1558—Literary collections. I. Yermolenko, Galina I. PN57.H87R69 2010 809’.93351—dc22 2009047142 ISBN: 9780754667612 (hbk) ISBN: 9781409403746 (ebk) Contents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Note on Texts, Transliterations, and Spellings xv Introduction 1 Galina Yermolenko PART 1 CRITICAL ESSAYS 1 Roxolana in Europe 23 Galina Yermolenko 2 East versus West: Seraglio Queens, Politics, and Sexuality in Thomas Heywood’s Fair Maid of the West, Parts I and II 57 Claire Jowitt 3 The Tragedy of Roxolana in theCourt of Charles II 71 Judy A. Hayden 4 Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment Dramas 89 Beate Allert 5 How a Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine 109 Oleksander Halenko 6 Roxolana’s Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight 125 Maryna Romanets 7 Roxolana in Turkish Literature: Re-Writing the Ever Elusive Woman of Power and Desire 141 Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu PART 2 TRANSLATIONS 8 Gonzalo de Illescas, The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History (1606) 167 Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto 9 Lope de Vega, The Holy League (1603) 173 Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto 10 Prospero della Rovere Bonarelli, Soliman (1620) 197 Foreword by Galina Yermolenko Translation from Italian by Virginia Picchietti vi Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture 11 Jean Desmares, Roxelana (1643) 219 Foreword by Galina Yermolenko Translation from French by Andrzej Dziedzic 12 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Giangir, or the Rejected Throne (1748) 239 Foreword and translation from German by Beate Allert 13 Denys Sichynsky, Roksoliana; Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue (1911) 243 Foreword and translation from Ukrainian by Galina Yermolenko Appendix 1: Plot Summaries 255 Appendix 2: Names 271 Appendix 3: Chronology 275 Bibliography 277 Index 301 List of Illustrations 1 Svltan Soleiman Chan; engraving by Theodore de Bry from Jean-Jacques Boissard, Vitae et icones svltanorvm Tvrcicorvm (Frankfurt, 1596). Courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 29 2 Rossa Solymanni Vxor; engraving by Theodore de Bry from Jean-Jacques Boissard, Vitae et icones svltanorvm Tvrcicorvm (Frankfurt, 1596). Courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 30 3 Roxolana sive Rosa Solymanni Vxor; from Richard Knolles’s The Generall Historie of the Turkes until this present Yeare 1603 (London, 1603); based on the engraving by Theodore de Bry. By permission of The British Library Board, RB.31.c.453. Image from Early English Books Online published with permission of ProQuest LLC. 31 4 Frontispiece of Prospero Bonarelli’s tragedy, Il Solimano (Florence, 1620); etching by Jacques Callot. Courtesy of the Rosenwald Collection of The Library of Congress. 33 5 Mademoiselle Mars (1779–1847) in ‘Les Trois Sultanes’; nineteenth-century French school. Bibliotheque de la Comédie Française, Paris, France. Courtesy of Bridgeman Art Library. 41 6 Roksolana; anonymous Ukrainian artist; oil on canvas; late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. By permission of National Museum of Ukrainian Art, Lviv. 50 7 Roxolana is Coming Back Home; bronze monument in Roxolana’s birthplace Rohatyn, Ukraine; sculpture by Roman Romanovych, architectural design by O. Skop, 1999. Photo by Galina Yermolenko, 2004. 53 8 Roksolana, Volodymyr Kostyrko, oil on canvas, 70 x 110 cm, 1995. Private collection, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Courtesy of Volodymyr Kostyrko. 54 viii Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture 9 Performance of Özen Yula’s play, Gayri Resmi Hurrem [Unofficial Hurrem], by Istanbul City Municipality Theater, Jan. 2005. Dir. Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu. Perf. Rozet Hubeş and Şebnem Köstem. Photo by Ahmet Yirmibeş. By permission of Istanbul City Municipality Theater. 158 10 Performance of Özen Yula’s play, Gayri Resmi Hurrem [Unofficial Hurrem], by Istanbul City Municipality Theater, Jan. 2005. Dir. Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu. Perf. Rozet Hubeş and Şebnem Köstem. Photo by Ahmet Yirmibeş. By permission of Istanbul City Municipality Theater. 159 11 Performance of Özen Yula’s play, Gayri Resmi Hurrem [Unofficial Hurrem], by Istanbul City Municipality Theater, Jan. 2005. Dir. Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu. Perf. Rozet Hubeş and Şebnem Köstem. Photo by Ahmet Yirmibeş. By permission of Istanbul City Municipality Theater. 160 12 Performance of Özen Yula’s play, Gayri Resmi Hurrem [Unofficial Hurrem], by Istanbul City Municipality Theater, Jan. 2005. Dir. Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu. Perf. Rozet Hubeş and Şebnem Köstem. Photo by Ahmet Yirmibeş. By permission of Istanbul City Municipality Theater. 161 Notes on Contributors Beate Allert is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Purdue University, Indiana. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and she specializes in discourses on seeing and perception. She has published three books: Die Metapher und ihre Krise: Zur Dynamik der “Bilderschrift” Jean Pauls (Peter Lang, 1987), Languages of Visuality: Crossings between Science, Politics, and Literature (Wayne State University Press, 1996), and Comparative Cinema: How American University Students View Foreign Films (Edwin Mellen, 2008). Her articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, Lessing Yearbook, Monatshefte, German Quarterly, and recent book chapters, in Visual Culture (Heidelberg, 2008); The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture (Rodopi, 2007); Literary Encyclopedia (http://www.LitEncyc.com) (London, 2006); Companion to G. E. Lessing (Camden House, 2005); and German Romanticism (Camden House, 2004). She is currently working on a book on G. E. Lessing. Andrzej Dziedzic is Professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He received his Ph.D in French literature from Northwestern University. His main area of specialization is sixteenth-century French literature and culture. In addition to numerous articles that have appeared in national and international journals, he also presented his research at various conferences in the United States, France, Canada, Japan, and Poland. He is a recipient of several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of Teachers of French, and the University of Wisconsin system, among others. His current research project focuses on the early modern encyclopedia and its origins and evolution in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century France. Oleksander Halenko is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), from which he received his Ph.D. He authored Documentary Publication on the History of Ukrainian SSR (Kyiv, 1991), co-edited The Crimea in Ethno-Political Dimension (Kyiv, 2005), and translated into Ukrainian Halil İnalcık’s The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300–1600 (Kyiv, 1998). His other publications include chapters and articles in several scholarly collections, as well as in Western and Ukrainian periodicals, such as Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, Ruthenica, Krytyka [Critique], Східний Світ [Eastern World], and Сходознавство [Eastern Studies]. He is currently working on two book projects which examine the international slave trade in early modern Eastern Europe and the Ottoman province of Kefe (Caffa). x Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture Judy A. Hayden is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Tampa. She has published extensively on women’s writing, particularly women’s writing and culture in seventeenth-century England. In addition to several book articles, she published essays in journals such as Women’s History Magazine, English, Papers on Language and Literature, Critical Survey, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre